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There are hazards with having a spouse with accounting software. They can give you a running total at any given moment of how much you have spent in a particular category. This category happens to be "Car Stuff."
So I hear "You know, you have spent $358 on Car Stuff already." When I make an Amazon or ADS order, or go to an auto store, it's a piece of cake. It goes right into the "Car Stuff" cost center.
Well, I had a doctor's appointment, and I was asked to pick up dog food at the grocery store on my way back. So there happened to be a Wal-Mart on the way, and it looked like my chance to look for Ultimate Protectant without leaving evidence of my action!
I picked up some decoy impulse-type groceries, like some ice-cream sandwiches, a key lime pie, I even got a can of Starbucks Double Shot in the checkout line, all of which I expected him to comment on. There was no Ultimate Protectant, but they had Natural Shine on sale for $4 and Ultimate Wash and Wax with a $5 rebate, and they had one old-style Scratch-X that I bought for polishing my guitar.
Stealthily, I immediately filled out the rebate and put it in the mailbox with the receipt, put the Scratch-X in my guitar case, put the other 2 items on my Car Stuff shelf, and I innocently went back to work at my work-from-home job.
My husband walks in the door with all his motorcycle gear still on and without missing a beat stops by my office door and says "I see you stopped at Wal-Mart and bought some Car Stuff."
No! I cried in protest. I stopped at Wal-Mart to buy dogfood!
To no avail. Ever since, I have been trying to get him to confess how he knew. He claims he did not look at my shelf of "car stuff," but he said he wasn't going to give up his secret of how he knew. I think my mistake was I left a Wal-Mart bag in the kitchen, but he won't confess.
So much for combination purchase stealth.
So I hear "You know, you have spent $358 on Car Stuff already." When I make an Amazon or ADS order, or go to an auto store, it's a piece of cake. It goes right into the "Car Stuff" cost center.
Well, I had a doctor's appointment, and I was asked to pick up dog food at the grocery store on my way back. So there happened to be a Wal-Mart on the way, and it looked like my chance to look for Ultimate Protectant without leaving evidence of my action!
I picked up some decoy impulse-type groceries, like some ice-cream sandwiches, a key lime pie, I even got a can of Starbucks Double Shot in the checkout line, all of which I expected him to comment on. There was no Ultimate Protectant, but they had Natural Shine on sale for $4 and Ultimate Wash and Wax with a $5 rebate, and they had one old-style Scratch-X that I bought for polishing my guitar.
Stealthily, I immediately filled out the rebate and put it in the mailbox with the receipt, put the Scratch-X in my guitar case, put the other 2 items on my Car Stuff shelf, and I innocently went back to work at my work-from-home job.
My husband walks in the door with all his motorcycle gear still on and without missing a beat stops by my office door and says "I see you stopped at Wal-Mart and bought some Car Stuff."
No! I cried in protest. I stopped at Wal-Mart to buy dogfood!
To no avail. Ever since, I have been trying to get him to confess how he knew. He claims he did not look at my shelf of "car stuff," but he said he wasn't going to give up his secret of how he knew. I think my mistake was I left a Wal-Mart bag in the kitchen, but he won't confess.
So much for combination purchase stealth.
For instance, when I get a really big order from ADS, I just have it shipped to my work...she never knows a thing!
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